$3 Million in Coal Mining Fatality

$3 Million in Coal Mining Fatality

Geoffrey Fieger recently reached a $3 million settlement in a deliberate
intent case involving the death of a coal miner in a fatal rib roll accident
at a coal mine in West Virginia.

The young coal miner's entire body was crushed by a rock measuring
25 feet long and 5 or 6 feet tall. The gigantic boulder fell from the
rib of an 18-D belt trench. The defendants claimed that the death of the
young coal miner was completely unforeseeable.

Plaintiffs claimed the incident was foreseeable because there had been
an almost identical rib roll accident at one of defendants' mines
a few years earlier. Also, the defendants had been cited numerous times
by the MSHA for failures to protect miners from hazardous roof and rib
conditions

Plaintiffs alleged that implementing a simple safety protocol called "rib
pinning in cycle" would have avoided the rib roll.

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I acknowledge and consent that this legal inquiry may be referred to a
separate law firm on my behalf or by the authority of the injured party.

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